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"Middle Class" Magic

As any followers of the Forest Bear Studios YouTube channel know, Chubby and Atkst occasionally battle a format of MTG they call "Middle Class" Magic. They make and use decks composed of cards having been printed at the uncommon rarity that are legal in the Legacy format (obeying the WOTC official banned list), in conjunction with basic lands. I find this format fascinating and wide open. I think it can provide very fun experiences in casual magic. In addition to this, it is a considerably cheap form of MTG, much like Pauper. I would like to have this thread serve as a place for fans of this format to congregate, talk about possible decks and generally develop interest in possibly playing some paper magic matches of MCMTG.

It is a Cascade-based value deck in Temur colors. I have no idea if the lands are what they should be because I have yet to play a match with it. However, I really like the premise behind it! Comments are welcomed and appreciated!

I especially like the Worm Harvest deck, as I always wanted to build a deck around it. It never clicked that it made the jump down to uncommon in Modern Masters, so the shell is great. Rain of Filth into multiple harvests seems terrifying to face off against.

"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn RandMy Etsy

Yeah, fast mana and value generation makes Rain of Filth just incredible in this deck. Dakmor Salvage is a rather good recursion engine. Being able to Worm Harvest every turn is hard to beat, and you can start the chain fairly early. Have any lists you would care to share that you're currently working on?

So, I just recently watched Randy Buehler's Modern No Banned List playlist for Gauntlet of Greatness. He had the Thopter Sword deck on there. You know which two cards are totally printed at uncommon? Thopter Foundry and Sword of the Meek. So here that is:

I literally just tried making this thing, so what I have so far in the board is a total crapshoot. I imagine that token hate would be pretty good against this deck, so maybe we could put some Zulaport Cutthroat/Blood Artist action in there? Cutthroat actually seems better since our removal sweet is exile based and he is a 1/1 for Sword to trigger from the yard. I have playtested this a couple of times on tappedout.net, and my one concern is that I seem to be flooding quite a bit, despite having only twenty lands. Thoughts?

My imagination has been going wild the last few days. I don't know how competitive this list could actually be, but it has some really strong cards in it as far as milling goes. The games where you curve Hedron Crab into Hedron Crab and play Dimir Aqueduct are silly. I typically don't play mill strategies, however, so I don't know what all you do with the sideboard.

I noticed so far that many of the lists posted don't seek to play fair magic hardly at all (though that isn't true for Chubby and Atkst, who have played several fair lists over the course of their videos). I thought a deck that did--from me, that is--would be a nice refresher. Thus, the following came to be:

Well, I don't know how many more decklists I have in me, but I'm going to keep them coming for as long as I am able (though most likely at a gradually slowing pace). I was talking to my friend at dinner today about how exciting I think the potential of MCMTG is, and he mentioned that he thought some reanimation spells were uncommon. Long-story-short, here this monstrosity is:

So as this format start to shape up in my head, I am beginning to notice how the decks are laying out. The strategies are widespread and incorporate a vast amount of different cards with different functions for fun and interesting interactions, but so far tokens are REALLY strong. That makes decks capable of dealing with tokens strong as well. Basically, I'm starting to figure out what sideboards might look like.